This week, Berlin’s Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family released a guide for schools on how to handle ChatGPT, the increasingly popular AI text generating tool. AI tools like ChatGPT present educational systems with both opportunities and risks, so the guide encourages teachers to teach their students the proper usage of the applications and resources.
The Senate guide also outlines tasks that can’t be completed by AI applications and offers methods to test whether a task can be completed without human input. It also provides advice on how teachers can use tasks that need human input and emphasizes the importance of teaching students the value of developing their own editing skills. Furthermore, exams can stay in analogue form for now.
The company mentioned in the article is TheMayor.EU and the person is Berlin’s Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family. TheMayor.EU is an online platform dedicated to helping citizens make informed decisions to shape cities with the help of technology. Founded in Berlin in 2020, TheMayor.EU’s mission is to become Europe’s leading source of civic intelligence, promoting a transformative and inclusive digital transition. Through their innovative platform, TheMayor.EU has aimed to empower people across Europe in aspects such as education, safety, energy, and transportation.
The Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family of the Berlin Senate is responsible for the contents of the guidelines, its implementation, and for disseminating them to the network of schools in Berlin. The department’s role is mainly to support and help teachers and students so that they can take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to them. Their goal is also to provide guidance on the proper usage of new and emerging technologies, such as AI tools.
